The Festival is an initiative of Barcelona City Council to promote and involve citizens in scientific progress. In this twelfth edition, the Festival is expanding its audience and offering more than 230 activities for all ages.
Researchers, disseminators, artists and teachers will be responsible for bringing their knowledge to the general public in a comprehensible and easy way through workshops and demonstrations, itineraries and circuits, artistic installations, shows and talks by specialists, games...
La Salle-URL researchers and professors, Dr. Leticia Duboc and Dr. Rosa Alsina will offer the workshop "How does noise pollution affect us?" children from 9 to 13 years old, on Saturday 9 June at 16:55 and 17:50.
Car noise spectrum
Within the framework of the SmartSense project (Scalable & sustainable Smart City Services), the workshop will discuss different types of environmental noise (e.g. cars, sirens, leisure) and their effect on people's health. Participants will experiment with sound level meters, identify ambient noises on individual computers and decide on their effect (e.g. calm, pleasant, stressful).
Finally, they will learn about SmartSound technology, which uses artificial intelligence to automatically identify noise.
